Protect Yourself from Security Scares and Monstrous Misconfigurations

In this webinar, held on Halloween, we will discuss scary situations and how to fix them!

Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services offer organizations intelligent, secure public cloud capabilities to innovate solutions at scale. The integrated tools and services within the cloud platform provide enterprises, CSPs, resellers, and government agencies potential for increased agility and operational efficiency across IT and DevOps. However, with that flexibility comes the possibility for an instance to be configured incorrectly. Join us to learn how to configure your cloud correctly and minimize risks.

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

- How to effectively manage and optimize your Azure and AWS cloud
- What the most common misconfigurations are and how to avoid them
- How our pre-built best practice checks by the CloudCheckr in-house experts provides peace of mind for any new Azure and AWS cloud customer

This webinar outlines what HIPAA compliance includes in the cloud era. It will help enterprise IT leaders interested in becoming more familiar with the requirements and, especially, how to adhere to them when running on a public cloud infrastructure, such as Amazon or Azure. You will learn details of the different rules for handling compliance when it comes to dealing with Protected Health Information (PHI).

HIPAA compliance requires continuous monitoring and logging of the network and information assets. In this webinar, we outline the specifics required to keep a public cloud environment secure and provide practical recommendations for dealing with auditing.

The cloud promises huge potential benefits to organizations of virtually any size. But making a move to the cloud is a complex logistical undertaking, requiring new skills and knowledge to address the technical challenges of migration. However, cloud expertise isn’t easy to come by. According to a Salesforce report for IT market intelligence company IDC, annual spending on the cloud is growing more than six times faster than IT expenditure overall.

In this webinar, we start by looking at the challenges of cloud migration and the skills and capabilities you’re likely to need. We will then run through the different ways you can overcome the skills gap in your organization—so you have the know-how in place to make the transition.

Many MSPs have long-standing enterprise clients that have hesitated to move to the public cloud. They are held back by legacy on-premises applications and the huge logistical undertaking of migrating them. This has made it difficult for the traditional MSP to embrace the cloud and develop services around the new technology.

As Enterprises move through their hybrid cloud journey, many will rely on a trusted partner to support them, which presents new opportunities for MSPs to break into the cloud and grow their businesses.

In this webinar, we run through some of the reasons your customers are ready for hybrid cloud adoption, the challenges they’ll face, and the client services you can offer to help overcome them.

HITRUST Alliance is a not-for-profit organization that offers a security framework and training courses, helping cloud experts achieve compliance with legal mandates. While it's voluntary, being HITRUST certified can help you safeguard sensitive information and manage risk across the supply chain.

In this webinar learn more about HITRUST and how it is likely to impact your organization.

Cloud adoption represents a major IT transformation, a shift in culture and a new way of financing your infrastructure. Establishing a center of excellence in the cloud is linked to many benefits across the organization. Is your organization in the process of creating a CCoE?

In this webinar learn more about Cloud Adoption Across the Enterprise including:

-What to look for when building your CCoE team
-How to run through the planning phase of a cloud migration
-Examine the challenges and responsibilities of your CCoE

The Cloud may be an esoteric concept, but there are indeed physical and literal distinctions between Microsoft Azure and other cloud platforms. In this webinar, live from Microsoft Ready 2018, Todd Bernhard will discuss some of the specific characteristics about Azure that set it apart.

Can you reach the full potential of the cloud using the tools provided by the cloud vendor? Take a closer look at the various tools built into the AWS (Amazon Web Services) platform, including advantages and shortcomings.

In this webinar attendees will learn:
-The strengths and weaknesses of AWS native tools.
-Understand the shortcomings of those tools to see where additional third-party tools are needed.

Load Balancing automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses. It can handle the varying load of your application traffic in a single Availability Zone or across multiple Availability Zones. Load Balancing offers different types of load balancers that all feature the high availability, automatic scaling, and robust security necessary to make your applications fault tolerant.

Attendees will:
-Understand how Load Balancers can help optimize your cloud resource utilization and reduce costs
-Identify the security implications of Load Balancers
-Look at why monitoring Load Balancer deployments is so important

Have you heard about Bitcoin? And Blockchain? They are NOT the same thing, but both are interesting. Ever since Bitcoin arrived on the scene, people have tried creative schemes to profit from the cryptocurrency.

In this webinar, attendees will learn the difference between Bitcoin and Blockchain, and understand the Economics of Bitcoin including if it makes sense to use Cloud Computing to mine for coins.

2017 marked the 10-year anniversary of Amazon’s AWS, and with it a decade of mainstream awareness of the concept of the public cloud. As we begin the year, the trends that will drive the technology industry through 2018 are becoming apparent. Among these trends is a greater maturity surrounding discussions about cloud computing.

In this webinar attendees will learn how 2018 will be a year where the importance of robust multi-cloud management capabilities becomes clear. Organizations of all sizes will seek out solutions that transcend any individual public cloud provider while still providing visibility and management of their own on-premises environments.

CloudCheckr is a robust cloud management platform (CMP) that offers a variety of features to help enterprises, resellers, and public sector organizations optimize their public cloud ecosystems. While most competing platforms only offer cost optimization or security, CloudCheckr offers both. The added functionality is great for customers, but it also means more menus to navigate. To make it easier, we have revamped the user interface.

In this webinar, attendees will see a more responsive, user-friendly interface for CloudCheckr that offers complete control of your cloud, while keeping the navigation minimal and effective so you can focus on your job.

As the public cloud industry surges past the $200 billion mark, the dramatic adoption of cloud technology makes the benefits of public cloud infrastructure abundantly clear. This large-scale cloud adoption has repercussions across organizations. From IT technologists who determine architecture and day-to-day administration, through finance, legal, and procurement in business operations teams, there is a new need for cooperation across business units throughout the organization to get the greatest benefits from cloud adoption.

Key Findings:

-94% of organizations face challenges in public cloud adoption
-33% report that business leadership has a strong understanding of the cloud
-81% say they need to improve communication between departments

As 2017 comes to a close, you may have budget that falls under “use it or lose it.” If so, consider purchasing a credit towards discounted Reserved Instances for 2018 and beyond! RIs from AWS and more recently Microsoft Azure are a great way to save up to 75% compared to On Demand rates, as long as you know you’ll have a long-term need. You can use that end-of-year budget surplus to make an up-front payment towards a one or three year commitment, making your monthly cloud spend much less.

In this webinar, attendees will:
-Learn how to decide between the various types of RIs including Standard and Convertible
-Understand the terms and payment options
-Explore the tools available to make informed recommendations

Didn't make it to AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas this year? Or were you there but found it hard to visit all of the booths and attend all of the sessions? We will cover what you missed in this AWS re:Invent Recap webinar! Attendees with learn:

- What new announcements were made by Amazon and CloudCheckr
- What to expect in the new year
- Observations from the show floor and sessions

For some government agencies that are just starting their cloud journey, the road ahead can seem daunting. It’s a stark contrast from the old way of buy IT, one that allows agencies to invest in technology as a service rather than accumulating more hardware and software.

But cloud adoption doesn’t happen in a vacuum. There is a lot of preparation and planning to decide what your IT environment will look like post-cloud migration and into the future. One of the topics that’s being discussed among agencies is how to automate processes once they’re available in a cloud environment. That can add yet another wrinkle to the complexities of cloud.

But the long-term benefits often outweigh the short-term challenges, experts argue. That was the topic of conversation at GovLoop’s recent online training, “How Public Cloud and Automation Are Making an Impact in Government.” The panel included Phil Bertolini, CIO and Deputy County Executive of Oakland County, Michigan; Jeff Kushner, Chief Marketing Officer at Allgress; and Patrick Gartlan, Chief Technology Officer at CloudCheckr.

You've heard about the many ways CloudCheckr can help keep your cloud in check. Now you can see CloudCheckr in action, including demos of our 500+ Best Practice Checks, our Cost Savings Reports and Right Sizing tools, and our security & compliance features.

In this webinar, you can view and ask questions as Todd Bernhard demonstrates popular features of this award-winning platform.

MSPs and CSPs and resellers often have a tough enough time generating invoices for their customers. Add to that the demands of a multi-cloud environment, with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and more, and it becomes extremely challenging to allocate billing and invoicing.

The solution is automation. CloudCheckr can automatically generate invoices and even help resellers profit by keeping discounts and credits allocated among clients, presenting list price, as well as custom charges and credits as desired.

In this webinar, attendees will learn how to turn billing and invoicing from a nuisance to a profit center.

Are you struggling to find IT budget to drive new business initiatives? There are many things you can do within the AWS console to drastically reduce your monthly AWS spend. Join us for an educational event where we’ll teach you tips and tricks to better optimize your AWS console and free up IT budgets for projects that drive innovation and move the business forward.

The cloud promised to save you money, but your cloud bills may have actually increased. To truly leverage the cloud, you need to adopt a Cloud First attitude, using innovative ways to compute while preventing Cloud Sprawl. Tools like CloudCheckr can help you optimize costs along with experts from CorpInfo-Onica who can help you make the right architectural and technology decisions with technology.

In this webinar, attendees will learn:

About the AWS Well-Architected Framework and how to avoid common cloud consumption pitfalls
Establish and follow Best Practices for Cost, Security, Usage and Availability
Ensure compliance and mitigate risk of costly security breaches
Tips and tricks to better optimize your AWS console
When to leverage RIs and building a solid RI strategy
About Cloud OpsPilot™, CorpInfo-Onica’s all-in-one service that tackles visibility & activity to support healthy cloud consumption

CloudCheckr webinars help Modern Enterprises, Managed Service Providers, and Resellers increase operational efficiencies across cloud infrastructure. Attendees will learn best practices around cloud cost, security, and inventory management.